RMAN has the ability to perform full and incremental backups but lacks the
ability to interface with a tape or library without a 3rd party media
manager such as NetBackup.  You do not have to have Veritas File system
installed to perform incremental Oracle backups.

Dan

-----Original Message-----
From: Penelope Carr [mailto:Penelope.Carr AT veritas DOT com]
Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 5:37 PM
To: Ballowe, Charles; 'veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu'
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Oracle Backup question


Charles,

Unless you have Veritas File System installed with your database ontop of
that file system, our Advanced Block Level Incremental Agent installed, as
well as Netbackup you cannot do incrementals to tape using RMAN.  You can
only do incrementals to disk.  All your jobs show up as Default Policy
because the backups are being run as Oracle user and that is the policy it
uses.  If you look at your logs you will see you are actually running you
hot full or cold full by the appropriate script you are running that is set
up to each schedule.

Penny

Penelope Carr
Channel Education Services
cell 914-439-4911
office 914-934-2404


-----Original Message-----
From: Ballowe, Charles [mailto:CBallowe AT usg DOT com]
Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 4:03 PM
To: 'veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu'
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Oracle Backup question


I'd like to have a class for oracle backups with 3 schedules in the class. A
monthly 
(every 4 weeks) cold full, a weekly hot full, and a nightly hot cumulative
incremental. I have a script that calls the appropriate rman information
based on the NB_ORA_PC_SCHED 
variable in its environment when it's called. This works and performs the
appropriate type of backup, but the jobs that actually write to tape show up
as being in the default-policy. This, of course, doesn't work out because
the retention periods that go with the schedules aren't gonna take.

If I put the 'send' command into the rman script, I end up with an error 240
"No schedules of the correct type exist in this class".

Any ideas what I might be doing wrong?

-Charles Ballowe

Platform:
        NBU 3.4 DataCenter
        Tru64 5.1
        SSO
        Oracle 8.1.7
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